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Antigua Guatemala Foodways

La Antigua Guatemala

City

⚠ NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF GUATEMALA, AND THAT IS THE ENTRY. Antigua was the colonial capital of the Captaincy General from 1543 until the 1773 earthquakes, is a World Heritage site, and has a food culture shaped by the convent kitchen, the colonial elite and, since the later twentieth century, tourism. The DULCES TÍPICOS of the Antigua convents are a real tradition and a documented one: cocadas, canillitas de leche, dulce de higo, colochos de guayaba, mazapán, conservas of squash, sweet potato and jocote, and the candied-fruit windows of the Calle del Arco. Plus CHOCOLATE, ground and sold as tablets for drinking; the BREADS — champurradas, pan de yema, pan dulce and the semita; COFFEE from the surrounding ANTIGUA denomination, grown between three volcanoes; and the SEMANA SANTA processions with their own foods. ⚠ THE TOURIST RESTAURANT SCENE IS RECORDED AS ITS OWN CONTEMPORARY LAYER and is not conflated with the traditional kitchen of the surrounding Kaqchikel villages.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Spanish, Kaqchikel

What is recorded

  • Antigua Guatemala was the colonial capital of the Captaincy General from 1543 until the earthquakes of 1773 and is a World Heritage site. Its dulces típicos are documented as a convent tradition. It is recorded as not representative of Guatemalan foodways generally, and its tourist restaurant sector is recorded as a distinct contemporary layer rather than as continuous with the traditional kitchens of surrounding Kaqchikel villages. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Central American Coffee documented

    The Antigua denomination, grown between three volcanoes.

  • related to Guatemala City Foodways documented
  • related to Spanish Foodways documented

    The convent kitchen and the colonial capital: the dulces típicos, the breads and the salt-cod Lenten dishes are the Iberian inheritance.

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